Kendrick Elementary News Today

The ambitious $1.8B plan would open next year with a $167M phase focused around returning the Barrons Branch drainage tunnel to an open creek surrounded by walkways and businesses.

A formal groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kendrick Elementary School Thursday morning pointed attendees to the future even as it brought back memories for others.

The end came quickly Friday for the building that was Kendrick Elementary School with excavators ripping down most of the structures yellow brick walls and roofs within a day.

Editors note: This story has been corrected to show that the council delayed approval of the zoning request.

A Waco zoning change Tuesday opens up options for multi-family development on land running nearly to Kendrick Elementary School from New Road.

Motorists can expect 15 months of construction work on Bagby Avenue now that the $10.1 million project is underway to reconstruct it from H-E-B on South Valley Mills Drive to

Kendrick Elementary School students and parents may ask Santa for coffee for the new year with a change in school hours that means an earlier starting and ending time.

For Kendrick Elementary School’s faculty and staff, Christmas boxing and unboxing will seem like small potatoes.

The weeks ahead will see major milestones for the remaining schools under construction in the $355 million Waco Independent School District bond issue, and the start of construction on others.

Kendrick Elementary turned 71 on Monday, and former students, their friends, family and well-wishers turned out en masse to wish the place goodbye and best wishes before it is replaced.